Hall, 27, and her friend, 20-year-old Brittany Fleming, crashed a stolen SUV into the gates of the NSA on March 30 after officials began shooting at their vehicle. Authorities stated that they began shooting because the pair did not initially stop proceeding toward the building when authorized to do so, instead accelerating towards a police vehicle. Hall was killed in the incident. Fleming was wounded.

Hall and Fleming reportedly went on their joy ride while in a drug-fueled haze after a party. "Driver killed at NSA had history of robbery, prostitution," the Baltimore Sunheadline read. Hall was on probation and had an arrest warrant issued the day before she died.

Yet although a gun was found in the stolen SUV, Hall was unarmed at the time of her death. An FBI spokesperson stated after the incident that it was not connected to terrorism.

What's more, wrong turns at that particular exit are an extremely frequent occurrence. Yet early reports from authorities described the incident as an attempt to "ram" the gates, and some media reports referred to events as a "gunfight."

Initial reports of the incident that led to her death described Hall and Fleming as "men dressed as women," "crossdressers," "men in drag," and "transvestites." Hall was also frequently misgendered and typically referred to as a man, using her legal name.

The few media reports on Hall's death have been tinged with transphobia, with a Washington Post article continuing to describe Hall and Fleming as "men dressed as women," a revelation which it referred to as a "shocking twist." The Post also described the street scene where Hall and Fleming worked as a "choreography of cliches," focusing on the high heels, short shorts, and heavy makeup of the women.

In contrast to the outrage that the deaths of black men like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Gray have prompted on social media, there has been very little attention given to Hall's death. As a black trans sex worker, she and Fleming have been written off as "troubled." On Tumblr and Reddit, platforms that are usually supportive of transgender victims of violence and black victims of police brutality, Mya Hall's name is notably absent.

But the Baltimore protests have renewed public concern over Hall's death, as well as criticism of the lack of attention it received and the way the media has covered it.

Protest over Hall's death comes a month after the indictment of a suspect in the death of Islan Nettles, a black trans woman, in 2013. It also comes just days after a ruling in the case of Dante Servin, a policeman who shot Rekia Boyd, an unarmed black woman, in 2012. Judge Dennis Porter ruled that Servin could not be found guilty of the offense he was charged with because he should have been charged with something harsher. The ruling left Boyd's supporters without justice or recourse for a new trial, and social media has been busy urging petitions for the firing of Servin.

The names of Hall and Boyd have joined an ever-lengthening list of victims of police brutality. And while protests like those in Baltimore remind us that #BlackLivesMatter, the lives of fallen black women tend to matter less when it comes to summoning public outrage over their deaths.

While protests like those in Baltimore remind us that #BlackLivesMatter, the lives of fallen black women tend to matter less when it comes to summoning public outrage over their deaths.

"When black men are killed, slogans like “hands up, don’t shoot” or “I can’t breathe” echo across the country," wrote Darnell Moore in Mic after Servin's acquittal. "When black girls and women like Boyd are killed, there is comparative silence."

Yet awareness of Hall's death is growing. A post on Tumblr simply proclaiming Hall's name has gotten 14,000 notes in under a day.

And as the protests continue, more women will be reminding us that the lives of black women, black transgender women, and sex workers matter just as much as those of the men who are frequently at the center of the media's attention.

The shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson sparked a national movement to put cameras on police all around the United States. And earlier this week, President Obama announced funding for 50,000 such cameras.